Denver's Civil Service Commission has refused to temporarily return to work a detective fired for failing to follow-up on a tip and then lying about it.

In February a Civil Service hearing panel made up of lawyers who contract with the commission to hear discipline cases, overturned the firing of Jay Estrada.

The City appealed the decision and asked for a stay of the reinstatement until the Commission hears the city's appeal.

Estrada was on the traffic-accident investigations team in December 2010 when Laurie Gorham Sherlock, then 27 and 34-weeks pregnant, was hit as she crossed a street in the Stapleton neighborhood. Sherlock's child was delivered, but did not survive.

Estrada ignored a tip about a vehicle that could have been involved in the hit-and-run and then twice denied receiving it before Internal Affairs launched an investigation.

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